(Sandia)Lab's Discovery Soups up Plant Growth: Plants grow 10 percent to 35 percent faster

Albuquerque Tribune ^ | 8/25/03 | Sue Vorenberg

[okie01]

"A little chicken manure will do the same thing..."

And, being high in nitrates, in pretty much the same way.

Manure, however, can "burn" (acidify) or modify the pH of the soil. The Take-off product evidently does not -- because it encourages more nitrogen take-up by the plant.

In this way, the Take-off product would actually be beneficial to the soil, but it would risk getting more than enough nitrogen into the plant. For example, if pecan trees take-up more than the optimum amount of nitrogen, there will be a prolific setting of fruit...but the nuts will tend to be small.

[Sir Gawain]

Hmmm...

[Consort]

Plant grows 40ft in three months.

[STARWISE]

I hate it when that happens.

[Willie Green]

Hmmmmmm.....

Sprinkle the stuff on your neighbor's lawn and you can watch him cut his grass 10~35% more often than you do.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

[11B3]

My hay fields will appreciate this product. (My equipment won't.)

[xJones]

Willie, you're probably the type that throws kudzu on your enemy's front lawn around midnight and then laughs maniacally the next day when his house looks like this:

Lord help us if kudzu ever gets a whiff of this new stuff. :D

[Moonman62]

You know what this means. Several billion more in government subsidies, so that crop prices don't drop too much from increased productivity.

[woofie]

bump

[Tijeras_Slim]

What this doesn't tell you is that the tests were conducted out by the Gamma facility in Area-5.

Being a former Marylander, I've seen kudzu. But kudzu ain't never seen a growing season like the East Mountains.

[chilepepper]

boy, the drug kingpins in panama, colombia & peru and going to follow this one closely!

[MrLeRoy]

And the ones in Kentucky, etc.

[Willie Green]

Willie, you're probably the type that throws kudzu on your enemy's front lawn around midnight and then laughs maniacally the next day when his house looks like this:

IMHO, the Good Lord blessed me with both a vivid imagination and common sense so that I may derive satisfaction from envisioning such retribution without having any need whatsoever to actually act upon such ideas.

Besides, it's my understanding that kudzu is primarily a Southern invasive species.
Up north, in my native Pennsylvania, I'd be more inclined to use Crown Vetch.